Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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